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January 06, 2009 - (Free Research) Your voice is instrumental in helping to define the creation and development of the products and services you use daily. This online survey is for IT pros to share their opinions on key tech products and industry trends.
June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins.
June 15, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines a critical business problem: insufficient management of unstructured data. It discusses the data management problem and how it manifests in the enterprise as risks, missed opportunities, and resource sinkholes such as: e-Discovery, compliance, and an inability to reuse valuable data assets.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this paper to learn how Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) successfully automates the printing of Oracle eAM documents such as work orders and accompanying attachments into company business processes.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This Podcast discusses how to make your supply chain lean, how to take costs out of your supply chain and how to make your supply chain as efficient as possible.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This Webcast discusses how to make your supply chain lean, how to take costs out of your supply chain and how to make your supply chain as efficient as possible.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Operational systems and analytical systems are on a convergent path. The artificial divide between operations and analysis is closing rapidly as a combined result of Moore's law and technological innovation. This promising development is leading to real reductions in latency of operations and the creation of time itself for decision-makers.
June 2009 - (Free Research) A new standard file format, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), for submitting financial reports to the SEC in the United States is being mandated for June 2009. Both the creation of, and reporting from XBRL, are functions performed by the same new tool described in this paper.
January 2009 - (Free Research) Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with mission-critical business processes, smart businesses can set a path for industry leadership.
February 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn about the Business Model for Information Security, which takes a business-oriented approach to managing information security that is both predictive and proactive as it adapts to changes, considers the organizational culture and delivers value to the business.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Read this customer success story to discover why Sony Online Entertainment replaced it's existing Oracle database solution with EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus® Advanced Server, providing enhanced performance, scalability, and cost savings.
September 2008 - (Free Research) This document is designed to be a guide to the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle E-Business Suite to automate and maintain the distribution of business documents
April 2009 - (Free Research) Read this presentation transcript to learn what a lean supply chain is and how it can cut costs out of your supply chain, as well as make your supply chain as efficient as possible. Learn what steps a company must take to make its supply chain lean, and the top ten technology trends to implement a lean supply chain, and more.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper takes a look at the importance of corporate governance in today's context, some best practices that companies can adopt in this area for effective corporate governance and, more specifically, lays out 5 important steps to effective corporate governance.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.
May 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper overviews a survey completed by Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting that analyzes the legal, financial, and regulatory risks associated with outbound email in large enterprises.
April 2009 - (Free Research) As the following pages will demonstrate, the evidence is that improving Business Transaction Assurance presents a real bottom-line opportunity and is moving high up the business agenda. However, companies' current systems are not equipped with the necessary tools to manage and control such transactions.
February 2009 - (Free Research) As the speed of business intensifies, C-level executives are struggling to implement effective strategies that give their companies a competitive edge. Operational Strategy and Operations Management (OM) are two business fields that work together to help executives set and manage business strategy based on
quantitative analysis, not gut feel.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Deduplication dramatically improves the value proposition of disk-based data protection as it eliminates the redundancy typically seen in secondary storage processes. The use of deduplication will drive further backup-to-disk adoption and deliver associated performance and reliability benefits.
June 2009 - (Free Research) What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects
May 2009 - (Free Research) Today's storage environments need a way to keep data intact without consuming corresponding disk storage. The FalconStor® File Interface Deduplication System provides the solution. Read on to discover the amazing benefits of this data deduplication solution.
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